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What I Like

• RHS Chelsea Flower Show – A Centenary Celebration
  Can you quite believe that Chelsea starts tomorrow? I mean, I know it’s May, but still! I suppose the late start to the year has started me off on the wrong foot rather and I can’t believe that the worlds biggest and best (in my opinion) flower show has already begun for those folk lucky enough to get a PR pass – or be in the royal family. Due to the signifi […]
  Geoff Wakeling
• A Peony's Passing
  The peony I posted about last Monday opened up this week. Inside was a surprising, solid white (like the one I posted about here)—no red or pink at all. When a quick shower came through yesterday, the pristine petals fell quickly...almost all at once. But the first colors to show are also the last. The ruffly ring of parrot petals hangs on for another day. ~ […]
  Daricia McKnight
• TULIPANTID
  Jeg er helt klar over at jeg har en tendens til at fortælle om havespots med kikkerten vendt omvendt, så man ser det hele på flere hundrede kilometers afstand. Og mange vil sikkert nok tro, at jeg kun interesserer mig for planter, som maleren for grøn maling og mureren for cement og beton. Det er ikke tilfældet, selvom jeg stadig mener at tulipanbede også sk […]
  Kjeld Slot
• Early Spring 'Star' Magnolia Stellata
  Magnolia stellata's primitive multi-petaled, milk-white and blush-striped blooms are the first flowers to fully unfurl within our garden shrubberies. Eighteen petals fall free of their furry calyx, multiplied by hundreds, to paint this small tree brightly. She stands along our second terraced garden stretching easterly amongst sentient statues of Apples […]
  Carol
• Harvests at last!
  Slowly, slowly, the harvests are beginning to arrive... I have put together here a little collection of photos to illustrate what I have harvested in the last week, purely so that I can participate in Harvest Monday over at Daphne's Dandelions. Radishes. These are "Flamboyant 5", a variant of "French Breakfast". Baby Leaf Salad. My o […]
  noreply@blogger.com (Mark Willis)
• Video d. 20. maj 2013
  Så er der video igen. Den tvetand, som jeg på videoen bliver lidt i tvivl om, hedder retteligen Lamium orvale.  
  Claus Dalby
• Annuals-A Garden Book Review
  Plants in pots are like animals in a zoo–they’re totally dependent on their keepers.  ~John Van de Water   For the last two years I have been growing some basic annual flowers from seed; snapdragons, pansies, violas, marigolds, sunflowers, torenia, morning glory and petunias.  All of these favorites I start indoors.  Then there are the [...]
  Donna
• I'd love to be out there gardening...
  I'd love to be out there gardening, honestly I would, but it's far too wet. I'm just back from a weekend adventure, and judging by the size of the driveway puddles it's been continuously raining on the Moosey Garden.
  (author unknown)
• Garden Book Reviews May 2013
  "Fly me to the Moon" is on my Ipod playlist.  It's an oldie, but a goodie.  I'm not (quite) old enough to remember it when it was originally popular, but I have loved it ever since I heard it several years ago.Another oldie but goodie is the bookMrs. Greenthumbs: How I turned a Boring Yard into a Glorious Garden and How You Can, Tooby Cas […]
  HolleyGarden
• My garden this weekend – 19th May 2013
  I have been completely immersed in gardening this weekend and its been wonderful.  The sun has shone and now on Sunday evening I have pleasantly achy limbs. I have been busy planting out plants that were waiting on the patio in the new border.  Tree peony (label lost its waiting so long), Paeonia lectiflora ‘Sarah Bernhardt’, two Ashwood hellebores, Hamameli […]
  Helen Johnstone